Video doesn’t have subtitles or closed captions: Select More > Transcript, then select Add subtitles/CC.

Video has subtitles or closed captions: Select More > Transcript or the CC menu in the player. Click the language dropdown and select Add subtitles/CC.

Click on one of the following places on the page:

Go to the video that you want to contribute subtitles or closed captions to.

Click on any line of caption text to jump to that part of the video.

As you watch the video, the transcript will scroll to show you the current caption text. Here’s how to open this interactive transcript option: (Check Show automatic captions by speech recognition (when available) to enable automatic captions for videos that don’t already have captions provided)įor videos with captions provided by the owner, you have the option to view the full captions transcript, and jump to specific parts of the video.

Select Playback from the left-hand menu.

Here’s how to always show or hide captions by default if they’re available:

Click on the captions icon at the bottom of the video.Here’s how to enable auto-translated captions: If the language you’d like isn’t there, you may want to try auto-translated captions, which uses Google Translate to translate the captions.

Select caption languageĬhoose different caption languages by clicking the captions icon. To turn them off, click the captions icon, then Turn Captions Off. Depending on your location, the captions icon will look like one of the following: or If a video has captions, you can turn them on by clicking the captions icon at the bottom of the video. Captions are only available on videos where the owner has added them, and on certain videos where YouTube automatically provides them.

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